North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Canada 2017 Version 3.0

31-33 - Manufacturing

This sector comprises establishments primarily engaged in the chemical, mechanical or physical transformation of materials or substances into new products. These products may be finished, in the sense that they are ready to be used or consumed, or semi-finished, in the sense of becoming a raw material for an establishment to use in further manufacturing. Related activities, such as the assembly of the component parts of manufactured goods; the blending of materials; and the finishing of manufactured products by dyeing, heat-treating, plating and similar operations are also treated as manufacturing activities. Manufacturing establishments are known by a variety of trade designations, such as plants, factories or mills.

Manufacturing establishments may own the materials which they transform or they may transform materials owned by other establishments. Manufacturing may take place in factories or in workers' homes, using either machinery or hand tools.

Units that completely outsource the transformation process but own the input materials are classified to the manufacturing sector. Units that completely outsource the transformation process but do not own the materials are classified to merchant wholesalers in Sector 41 Wholesale trade. These units are in fact buying the completed goods from the producer with the intention to resell it. These units may design the goods being manufactured, and may have some say in the manufacturing process.

Certain activities involving the transformation of goods are classified in other sectors. Some examples are post-harvest activities of agricultural establishments, such as crop drying; logging; the beneficiating of mineral ores; the production of structures by construction establishments; and various activities conducted by retailers, such as meat cutting and the assembly of products such as bicycles and computers.

Sales branches or offices (but not retail stores) maintained by manufacturing, refining, or mining enterprises apart from their plants or mines for the purpose of marketing their products are included in Sector 41 Wholesale trade as merchant wholesalers.

325 - Chemical manufacturing

This subsector comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing chemicals and chemical preparations, from organic and inorganic raw materials.

• Exclusion(s)

  • beneficiating mineral ores (See 212 Mining and quarrying (except oil and gas))
  • field processing of crude petroleum and natural gas (See 211 Oil and gas extraction)
  • processing crude petroleum and coal (See 324 Petroleum and coal product manufacturing)
  • smelting and refining ores and concentrates (See 331 Primary metal manufacturing)

3253 - Pesticide, fertilizer and other agricultural chemical manufacturing

This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing agricultural chemicals, including nitrogenous and phosphoric fertilizer materials; mixed fertilizers; and agricultural and household pest control chemicals.

32531 - Fertilizer manufacturing

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing nitrogenous or phosphoric fertilizer materials and mixing these ingredients into fertilizers; and in purchasing ingredients and mixing them into fertilizers. Establishments engaged in the manufacture of phosphoric acid, urea, ammonia and nitric acid, whether or not for use as a fertilizer material, are included.

• Exclusion(s)

  • manufacturing agricultural lime products (See 327410 Lime manufacturing)
  • mining potash (See 212396 Potash mining)

325313 - Chemical fertilizer (except potash) manufacturing^CAN

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing nitrogenous and phosphoric fertilizer materials and mixing these ingredients with other ingredients into fertilizers.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • ammonia (i.e., anhydrous or ammonium hydroxyde), manufacturing
  • ammonium and diammonium phosphates, manufacturing
  • ammonium nitrate, manufacturing
  • ammonium sulphate, manufacturing
  • fertilizers, mixed, made in plants producing nitrogenous or phosphatic fertilizer materials
  • fertilizers, natural organic (except compost), manufacturing
  • nitrogenous fertilizer materials, manufacturing
  • phosphatic fertilizer materials, manufacturing
  • phosphoric acid, manufacturing
  • superphosphates, manufacturing
  • urea, manufacturing

  All examples

• Inclusion(s)

  • manufacturing of phosphoric acid, urea, ammonia and nitric acid, for use as a fertilizer material
  • producing natural organic fertilizers and mixtures (except compost)

• Exclusion(s)

  • compost manufacturing (See 325314 Mixed fertilizer manufacturing)
  • mining potash (See 212396 Potash mining)

325314 - Mixed fertilizer manufacturing^US

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in mixing ingredients produced elsewhere into fertilizers.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • mixing purchased fertilizer materials
  • nitrogenous, phosphatic or potassic fertilizers, made by mixing purchased materials
  • potting soil, manufacturing
  • production of compost from organic waste

  All examples